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SNL Attempts To Tackle Trayvon Martin Case With Humor

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“Saturday Night Live” attempted to make it’s audience laugh this past weekend by addressing Trayvon Martin‘s death. Granted, the show wasn’t poking fun at the case, itself, but at the celebrity commentators chosen to speak on the matter. See the skit below.

A cast member kicked off the sketch by impersonating talk show host Piers Morgan, who famously went one-on-one with Toure over the Trayvon case in real life. The Brit joked, “If you just listen to my accent and not the words I say, you’ll think I’m quite intelligent.”

He then proceeded to invite “lesser officials and tangical celebrities” on his show to talk about the young slain teen.

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